goring vs slashing

goring

noun
  • A piece of cloth cut diagonally to increase its apparent width. 

  • The act by which something is gored; a wound inflicted by a horn, usually the horn of a bull in the context of bullfighting 

adj
  • Cut gradually sloping, so as to be broader at the clew than at the earing of a sail. 

slashing

noun
  • slash (woody debris) 

  • The action of something that slashes. 

How often have the words goring and slashing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )